Hi Ken,

Debugging your entire script is next to impossible without having the data files you're using.

But I wrote a sample PERL script that does part of what your own script does: it counts the form feeds in a text file. Just provide a sample data file that has some form feeds in it and you'll see the results. The script also makes use of 3 PPWatch-declared functions ( GetJobFileName( ), Log( ) and ShowMessage( ) ) so you can see how they work within PERL.
I hope this can help put you on the right track.

The problem comes from the way the input and output files are set. Instead of doing this

# Initialize variables
$fileIN = "";
$fileOUT = "";

# For use with Watch
#$fileIN = $Watch->GetJobFileName();

# For use with Watch
#$fileOUT = $Watch->GetJobFileName();

#### Copy Watch temp file to Temp directory for processing
copy $fileIN, "C:\\tempFolder\\StatementTemp.txt";

#### Read temp input file
open(IN, "C:\\tempFolder\\StatementTemp.txt" || die "Something is wrong opening Data File");

#### Open FH, watch temp file, for writing
open(OUT, ">$fileOUT" || die "Something is wrong opening Data File");

you should do this :

# Initialize variables
$fileIN = "C:\\tempFolder\\StatementTemp.txt";
$fileOUT = "";

#### Copy Watch temp file to Temp directory for processing
# For use with Watch
copy $Watch->GetJobFileName(), $fileIN;

#### Read temp input file
open(IN, $fileIN || die "Something is wrong opening Data File");

# For use with Watch
$fileOUT = $Watch->GetJobFileName();

#### Open FH, watch temp file, for writing
open(OUT, ">$fileOUT" || die "Something is wrong opening Data File");

Thanks.

Pierre P

Pierre,

I just wanted to let you know that I was finally able to implement the script changes and test on the customer's PP server and everything processed great. I'm still baffled as to why my original version of the script didn't work, as I have used the exact same format for another customer, but it could be that I had a slightly older version of Perl installed on the other server.

Thanks again.

Hello,

Here is a link that has the syntax

http://www.objectiflune.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=47;t=000017#000000